What part of speech is cipher?

Cipher can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. cipher is a verb, present, 1st person singular of cipher (infinitive).
  • 2. cipher is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. cipher is a noun, singular of ciphers.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does cipher mean?

Definitions

Verb

cipher - Regional and/or dated To calculate.

Noun

cipher - a message written in a secret code
cipher - a secret method of writing
cipher - a person of no influence
cipher - a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
cipher - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

Examples of cipher

#   Sentence  
1. noun Tom was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.
2. noun The information may be given in cipher.
3. noun My best guess is it needs an asymmetric cipher.
Sentence  
noun
Tom was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.
The information may be given in cipher.
My best guess is it needs an asymmetric cipher.

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